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This comment thread says a lot about hacker news.

a) the flagged videos have already been unbanned, with YT saying it was a mistake and b) YT's policy exempts educational videos, which is why it was a mistake, and why e.g LiveOverflow et al should be fine.



What are concrete videos that they consider worth banning? Videos explaining 0-day exploits? Where do they draw the line?


Probably something like a how-to guide to hack into a specific site. An analogy might be that a video on how to lockpick a door wouldn't be banned, but a video on how to lockpick your neighbour's door (with his/her address) probably would be.

The whole hullabaloo seems to be semantics about the meaning of educational vs instructional.




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